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Obama Gets Left Behind

From drone attacks to Wall Street regulation, President Obama has been unable to please the left wing voters of his party.

Come on now. Is Obama really a “psychopathic megalomaniac”?

I learned of Obama’s problems today. Not from Ron Paul supporters. Not from Glenn Beck‘s Drudge wanna-be news site The Blaze. I read about Obama’s psychosis from left wing Democrats.

Everyday I get emails from former members of Move On, a pro-Democratic Party group that was famously active during the build-up to the Iraq War in 2003. They’re complaining about one man: President Obama.

In these emails, one thing is apparent. When it comes to the left wing liberals, Obama is being left behind.

The left was mostly raptured into political heaven four years ago when they elected Obama on bended knee. He spoke about things dear to their hearts: closing Guantanamo Bay. Ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Getting tough on bankers.

Guantanamo is still open. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, but the military presence remains. (Smacks of imperialism. That’s something the left hates as much as libertarians do.) Then there’s the president’s bit about getting tough on bankers. Where has the White House come down hard on Wall Street? Fuhgeddaboudit. This is New York!

One anti-Obama Saturday in my inbox:

Re: Write-in Kermit the Frog!

If being a ‘pragmatist’ or a ‘realist’ means choosing only amongst evils, count us OUT. Obama betrayed the American voters who expected he would not gut the US Constitution. Both parties are the same. And, in a world of infinite possibilities we choose not between the lesser of two evils. In fact, those of us who are not into denial and work at the human rights front lines prefer to face the Republican snake head-on then the confused and gutless Democrat chameleon whining about being a progressive when they are NOT.” — Ezili Danto, human rights lawyer at the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network

Re: Obama is a psychopath; reminds me of Stalin

There’s a cancer in the presidency called Barack Obama. We have a psychopathic megalomaniac occupying the White house who could be compared to Nero, Caligula, Stalin, or Pol Pot in his disdain for human life. He and his coven of other like minded DC psychopaths and sociopaths are on a murdering spree and like a third world dictator Obama can have someone and their family (including you) executed or blasted to smithereens with a thumbs up or down. This is sickening to me. They are so blase about murdering that they refer to the hit list photos as “baseball cards”. Killing is a game or a sport to them. There is a “cancer on the Presidency” and that cancer has metastasized throughout Washington DC. It was there before Obama arrived but he brought a whole new and virulent strain with him. Every time there is a shameful incident or embarrassing event perpetrated by “a few bad apples” we hear from the DC psychopaths that “That is not who we are”. They are incorrect. It is who they are in DC. It is not who we the real everyday thinking feeling Americans are. I certainly am not one of the people to be included in their cumulative we.” — Alexander Cockburn, writing for his online publication Counterpunch. Alexander is also a columnist at The Nation, though I have a hard time believing this missive will make it passed Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Alex is a firebrand. I’ve written for him once or twice, and he was kind enough to comment on my reporting about the Iraq War for The Boston Globe in 2003 in his Beat the Devil column. This sounds like Alex being Alex, alright. Gotta love his fire.

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Because the US Justice Department appalled UN poll watchers by making it illegal to check a prospective voter’s ID. That’s right – under Barack Obama, there is now less respect for America’s election laws than for Russia’s.

Great job, Democrats. All Obama proved is that you can make all of America just like Chicago every two years on the first week of November.

Well, after what happed sir, that will be the last Bleack president EVER elected in the World! The International community was watching as we somehow elected a black man, perhaps to avoid having a woman Vice President who was a “Heart Beat” away from leading the nation. I would NEVER want to see a woman lead this country because women already have WAY too many rights than Men do not have in America. Women have actually caused men to LOSE their rights and they think it’s funny. We’re not laughing… and it willshow at the ballot box. So until women give back some of the rights they have taken from men through the VAWA, family courts bias, taking our jobs, demanding equal pay for not-so-equal work (causing men to be paid less for more work), working to keep the Small Business Administration as a “Women and Minority Only” lending institution for start-up businesses etc…etc… Men will not vote for a woman president of our nation…period! So ladies, start thinking Men’s Right’ and you might have a shot at seeing a female Commander in Chief.

Bush I an II are uber rinos so they are big gov republicans. Reagan never got involved in long distance protracted wars but these Bush clowns jumped at the chance. Insanity. The rest of the list speaks for itself. Don’t ever call the Bushs conservatives. They both horrible giant gov rino liberals.

Look at Bush II, Sarbox, Dept of Ed. No child left behind, unfunded medicare drug program, TSA, homeland security. This is the garbage he did but what he didn’t do was worse. NO tax reform and he had the legislative power to do it but he was insanely focused on saddam and had no compass. He was a horror.

The only time liberals protest wars is when the other party is running the war, otherwise as with obama, they are tranquil and complacent.

Conservatives protested the wars gulf I as an absurd expense that sent the country into a recession. But Iraq was a repeat of the same bloody stupidity and Conservatives opposed it but the rinos and liberals pushed it thorough. So don’t tell me how much liberals oppose imperialism. They love standing armies and have the history to prove it.

Anyone who listens to Obamas words as he describes himself in his book has to realize that this is a very disturbed and confused individual. He admits to self-medicating on cocaine and MJ. He discovered himself in the rants of a crazy racist Jew hating preacher named Rev. Wright. This guy is definitely a mental case.

Obama is too drug impaired, too immature, too much a narcissist to be the leader of any country that allows it’s citizens to be as free as we are. For he is a coward, and it takes a certain amount of courage and leadership skills to run a country that has checks and balances to your power as president. It doesn’t take much to be a dictator in a third rate nation in Africa, as that nation exists only to serve the wealth of it’s dictator. Obama would do OK there, if somehow he served the dictatorship on a golden platter.

“But what advanced economy has ever elected a black man? None. Not Europe. Not Latin America. Not Australia. Not even close. They’re not even on the ballot. Only in America.” And precisely what was the price of this act of hope over reason? A nation divided as never before in history, excepting perhaps during the Civil War. An economy in shambles with now no hope left of averting the “fiscal cliff” which will likely trigger a period of unrest and violence previously unknown in America. The fact that Obama is a “black man”, as you put it is not really the point, although his genetic composition seems to mean more to some than one should expect. The point is that he is a miserable failure as a leader. Obama is a dreamer exclusively, a flash in the pan in 2008, but without any of the skills absolutely required to successfully execute the duties and responsibilities of the Office of the President of the United States. Read the Maureen Dowd artilce in the NYT this morning about Mr. Obama and you may begin to see what a “hopeless” little man America elected in its blind ignorance and belief that we live in a literal, as one of the Move-On types wrote, “world of infinite possibilities”. I would refer such wrongheaded souls to a simple physical reality. Life on earth as we know it is possible because the planet inhabits a very unique place in the cosmos, i.e., an orbit around precisely the right sized star, at precisely the correct distance such that water exists here in its liquid state. This only occurs in an extremely narrow band of temperature, for example between -32F and 212F. When one compares this range to the entire range of termperatures in the universe, well the point can not be missed. So, to crow that we live “in a world of infinite possibilities” is ignorance in a very pure state. With “leaders” like that, and journalists who are always so anxious to quote them, one might truly say “only in America” indeed.